Bowl potholders! We often have bits and dabs of leftovers to warm up in the microwave and we've juggled those hot bowls. Now we can pick them up by the "ears". Thank you Karen--the tutorial worked great. You can find Karen's tutorial here. Check more Design Walls at Patchwork Times.Last week's goals--

One more yoyo block--YES

Two more sailboat blocks--YES all 12 done

Three more Trip Around the World rows--No

New Weekly Goals--

One more yoyo block

Sash some of the sailboat blocks

a pillowcase

That's all my goals for this week--Nick, Laura Beth and boys will be here Thursday nite--we're celebrating Asher's 1st birthday. Hard to believe he's already a year old. The weather was unseasonably warm today--60's and parts of South Dakota saw 70's. Ken and I worked outside pulling up flower stakes and cleaning flower beds. We even mowed! No grass--just mowed some weeds off!

Have you been Christmas shopping? Cookies baked? Tree and decorations up?? We're putting up the tree after Asher goes home. And--I never took down last year's decorations! What you say??!! Is she crazy?? Most my decorations are quilts, or small plaques and snowman. I love them all, and just never put them away. We have lights around our big window in the living room--clear lights--and they stay up year round. I stockpile boxes of clear lights at Christmas time--my walls are white and its hard to find white wires on lights except at Christmas time.